The King and Queen ruled over all the kingdom. They kept the peace and take the hard decisions. They ruled over the Fire Mountains, where the enlighten brothers and sisters lived praying. They ruled over The windy valley, where the land was rich and the food abundant. Over the Honest Islands, now peacefully paradises that provide fishes and resources at the capital. And they ruled over The Infinitive Desert, the piece of magic were every man and woman has to fight for the daily survive.
The House of Love, guardian of the pass between The Fire Mountains and the Windy Valley had been ruled over almost twenty years, but now the House of Light, the always loyal Yagami family is ruling. They are going to be changes.
All the court hold their breaths when the new King and Queen entered at the throne room, followed closely by the royal guard and his new royal knight.
Princess Ritsuko gasp over the presence of the very alive King.
The queen passed in front of the gold throne since where his father had been ruling for so long, touching it with the end of her fingers while she sat on the Queen's throne.
"she could discreet her ambitious a little more" Hikary whispered at the summon alchemist, sat next to her.
"I'm afraid that she is doing her best, sister" he responded.
"my brother is going to do so well to her"
"We can only hope the Light entered to her, if she achievement half of your progress the kingdom will be it's best" the summon alchemist said as the enlighten sister laugh discreetly.
When she turned her head at the center of the room again Yamato Ishida was kneeling in front of the King, the heavy sword touched both of his shoulder as the King declaimed an old judgment.
" You had accepted the responsibility of my life, which would be forever the priority of yours. Royal Knight, your work will be my rest and your pain will be safety. You would kept my life and I the ones of every man, woman and child of this kingdom. Be proud of yourself"
Loyal, brave, skilled. Yamato wished no one on the public would note his hearth jumping on his chest, his eyes sulking over the beautiful king, his soul making more than one promise.
"This is so dramatic" Hikary whispered again.
"The wolf Knight has a story, and this would stayed on the common people memory forever" the alchemist responded on an equal lower voice.
" all men are equal at the eyes of god"
"A truly enlightenment declaration"
The Royal Knight take his position again and the silence stayed on the room.
"now he is going to made it, right? The royal adviser announcement" Hikari kept whispered with her delicate fingers holding Izumi's clothes with excitement.
The summon alchemist tried his best to kept his cool, it was been a while since he had had a royal title, since that horrible night, since the assassins' treason.
The door of the royal room open abruptly and The Sea King entered at the room following by his three knights. He stopped I front of the thrones, with his feet strong on the floor and his head altive under his precious coral crown.
"Who want to see me?" he said with no recall or modesty.
The King call the peace in the room.
"I did it, Sea King" Taichi said the most formal the he could. The storm inside Joe's eyes was visible. "There are royal decisions that has to be discussed on court with you"
The Sea King turned his head to the Queen.
"Your majesty" he said to her "did you approve this?"
"I called you, and I'm your King" Taichi claimed in response of the he obvious defiant.
"Well" the sea king responded with calm "since your title was winner over a false victory I assume the only reliable person on the throne will rule"
A gasp on the audience. Joe Kido wasn't discreting the defiance, if the royal knight wouldn't be Yamato, his head would be on the floor.
Taichi pressed his teeth when he saw the smile on Iory's face, the hand of Ichihoujy over his sword, the indesition of the Wolf Knight, the storm was drowning him.
He need an advice.
Izumi felt the sparkle of Hikary, the girl was begging him to participate, but the summon alchemist wait for the call.
"How you dare" Taichi said surprised of his own anger, of how little that means to the Sea King.
Joe was still looking at the Queen. Who wasn't looking at him. She high her glance over the audience, at his temperamental husband, his Knight who was loyal at her the last, at the light atournment whose laws she don't understand, at her aunt who was holding the hand of his son and hidding her smile under a fancy fan. She only found her mother's eyes, strong, familiar, always over her.
A dept breath and she adjust herself.
"We called you, Sea King" said the Queen "because we are the King and Queen of the living land. The mountains, the valley, the island, even the desert had to response when we called it"
"Yes" answered the Sea King "I remembered how your father recommended me to rule over the Islands, duty that I'm going to do as soon at all this circus end"
"Watch your words" the Queen said " We aren't going to star our rule with weakness, pay attention at my husband request, that I'm sure he had a heavy reason to called you"
Taichi cough a little before he continued.
"I'm worry for the future of the, of my dominions. You are a King, first of your title and last of your name, but you hadn't taken a wife or had a son to rule when you died" Taichi said, and as he talked the look of the Sea King change, now was over the wolf Knight, watching him with incredulity.
"And out of where your highest, had started to had that concerns?" Joe said with indignation.
"Just the worries of a King" Taichi answered without saw at Yamato.
"I'm going to name Iory Hida my successor" Said the Sea King with a louder voice, with a little tremble, with a little anger on his chest and three pair of eyes holding tears behind him.
A long pause.
A very long pause.
" You are going to go at the infinitive desert, found at the head of the Purity House and ask for the hand on marriage of second daughter" The King said.
Joe Kido breath, he turned his head slightly at his kignhts, at the knight behind Taichi, and remember that long time when it was in reverse. Iory being King was a way to heal an old wound. The tournament to choose a King must to be a way to avoid a war.
"We understand what you are trying to do" said the Queen as she hold the hand of her husband " but ruling it is about what is better for everybody"
The Sea King has his bow and arrow on his back. His knights and the trembling eyes of the wolf Knight avoiding him.
"We all had to do sacrifices" the Queen said.
The Sea King, the great pacifier, closed his eyes, did a reverence, presented his respect and get out of the room, with his children and their storm following him.
A order of Taichi and Yamato ran behind his friend.
"Your sea higness!"
"Joe! "
"Damned Joe! "
Iory Hida cut him the steps.
" For a Kraken! Are you serious?"
"leaves us alone" Said the Sea King finally and the three knights leave the beach to watch them from above the ships.
"Joe, I know what are you thinking but… "
"Eight years Yamato, I tried to convince you to be my knight for eight years and you always said that you belong to the Valley, what the hell happen? "
"Joe, please… "
"You won the tournament, you must to be King, that King is a joke"
""I'm not a noble, they never going to let me rule"
"If you ask me I will… I will take your side, you know it, you had done it for me before"
" Joe… "
"Maybe even the princess would be on our side"
Yamato turned down the head, embarrased.
"Yamato… "
"I can't married a princess"
A terrible silence. He had never said it to Joe, but he has to know, he had growing together, he had seen him holding hands with boys, losing himself after the tournaments, singing forbidden songs at forbidden people.
"So what? That means now I had to get married? " Yamato raised his head, Joe was least serious "Damned Matt, I have a kingdom and three little children that started to be grow ups. If the youngest princess of the dessert is a crazy woman I'm going to send them to murder your King"
"I'm sorry"
"I know. But it is fine, where do I be without you? "
"Maybe on a peacefully situation"
"I'm sure I will be with my brothers, enjoying the eternal sea"
Izzy Izumi, the Summon Alchemist saw the wolf Knight said good by at the Sea King and listened the ships take course at the Infinitive Dessert. So the first order of the King is going to be done. It was almost funny how he think that was something important. The King was so worry for the little Kings while ignoring the real treat, that boy across the sea, who was trained by assassins and who was assembling a real army. And the other treat on the Honest island, that old shadow of an assassin.
The door open discreetly, Hikary Yagami entered at the room.
"Dear brother of light, you disappeared before the ceremony finished, the royal adviser position… "
"It was for the Queen mother, I know"
"I'm sorry"
"It is fine, sister, the Queen had passed for so much at so few time, she needs at her own people close" said Izzy with a calm smile.
" I hope that doesn't mean you are leaving the capital, I'm planning to stayed for a while, as long as my father allow it. My dear brother is going to need all the help of the world"
"Don't worry for me sister, I can take care of the light business since here as well as from the sacred monastery on the burning mountains" answered the summon alchemist as tied a letter at a message peugeot.
A smile grown over the enlighten sister.
The peugeot flow over the ocean for some days and nights until arrive at a hidden window of an opulent palace, where a well dressed man, with small and green eyes read the message. Henry stares at his new King and Queen, Takato and Yury had the most pure love that he had ever seen, Takato has trained him with more respect that no one before, and now, he is going to kill him.
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The Sea King was in the biggest ship, with the look lost over the blue ocean. Iory Hida was looking at him, waiting, wishing for the right order.
"I'm sorry" The Sea King said, his words were heavy and slow "I wish I could return you something of what I take away from you, but this world is much more complicated"
The Forgotten Prince remained on silence, with a lump in the throat.
"I would be true at my word, you and your knights will always going to have a place on my court and your children after you and the children after them"
The tide get stronger, but The Sea King kept himself strong on his feet. Joe Kido has been grown on a ship, maybe he was clumsy on the land and weak with the sword, but the leader of The Marching Fishes was the strongest contest over the deep blue sea.
Iori closed his eyes and left without a word. He entered at the room that he share with their brothers. The two of has their eyes closed, hugging under the sheets.
"The King apologised to me" Iori said pretty aware that their brothers weren't slept "It was utterly ridiculous. You can called kind, honest or diplomatic, but the true is that he is surrender at The Light, I can't imagine what the monks are going to do to you two when they look what public are you on the Islands"
Davis hugged Ken strongly.
"He is weak, he know that Taichi Yagami is not the best for the kingdom but is going to obey him equal, I thought he would be different but at the end he isn't"
"The Light Knight won on the right law" Davis said firmly.
"DId he?" Iori said "How many resource The Light kept for themselves? how many times the King Gennai cared about us on the Islands? Why we had to be ruled by those foreigners whose know nothing about us?"
"We are a united Kingdom" Davis reclaimed getting over the bed "We cannot just disobeyed the law because we want"
"But we are disobeying their laws, right now" Ken interrupted still with his head over the pillow.
Davis stared at his lover. Gracil and beautiful and so, so forbidden at the eyes of The Light.
"We don´t know the future, we don´t know if he is going to ruled like that" Davis said with desesperation.
"But we know how far away the Capital is, and we know that Joe Kido believed that the King is a fraud and even so he is accepting him over us" Iori said "Do you really thought The Light is the best for the Islands"
"Taichi Yagami is not the Light" Davis recalled.
"Davis, please" Ken interrupted "You couldn't really trust on him as a man, he is a puppet"
"Really?" Davis claimed raising from the bed "You two couldn´t agree on anything but, suddenly, you are planning a rebellion together?"
"It's not sudden, we had been planning this since…"
"Since when, Iori?" Davis interrupted "Since Joe Kido forgive us? when he share his palace and his food and his kindness with us? No, This is not about the people or The Islands, this is about you and your revenge for the death of your father"
"It's not like that and you know it" Iori claimed "He is weak, he is obeying a false King when he can be true to himself and rise agains him, we will follow him"
"Yeah, right, he has no reason to don't trust us"
"Davis" Ken called him "you know we are going to fight this battle, and you know we only going to win together, we need you"
Davis stared at them. Their brothers, so ready from the war, so hungry for a rebellion, he wish to had that fire on him, he wish he could call Taichi Yagami a fraud and share swords with their friends, but he couldn't. He left the room, on silence, maybe the stars and the deep blue sea could help him.
Davis went over the boat deck and found he wasn't the only one awake and mad. The Sea King was on his feet with a bow on his hands and a target on the principal mastil. The tide move the ship from left to right, but the King didn't miss it a shoot, not even once.